Um, news flash, the economy is growing.
It is called saving face, they won't change policy even though they are clearly going nowhere/backwards.
Bzzzzz....No, that is not what I said, and this is ANOTHER example of your NOT "raising the level".
Of course it is, when you have very small recovery efforts for an economy of this size, when you don't focus on the core issues, when you have a Congress divided where half are focused on the ruin of President and not on being a functioning body in the midst of the worst economic downturn since 1929.....surprise!...you will have a slow recovery. Oh, did I mention the world wide depressed demand contributing to lowered exports? Yeah, I did.
LOL.....um, I think that is the point, we are doing next to nothing on the fed level while at the state level we have had worse than nothing, ie austerity.
If you expect a "raising of the level", hint, it is a 2 way street. YOU have to be able to read this raised level coming at you, comprehend it, and show this comprehension in your responses. Either you are not reading well or not comprehending, but I am not here to hold your hand while you struggle. You want a higher level, but you can't handle it.
Why would I explain a situation of your creation? Again, I did not say that.
No, what I did was to show that the 2 things you thought were in or could be in an equivalence.....is not necessarily so. You are still confused about the point I made......after 2 pages!
The Fact Checker
Obama's claim never changes. What does that tell us?
The good news is, today, our businesses have created nearly 7 million new jobs over the past 38 months. Five hundred thousand of those jobs are in manufacturing.”
— President Obama, remarks on college affordability, May 31, 2013
During a speech calling on Congress to halt a hike in the student loan rate, President Obama referenced the creation of 500,000 manufacturing jobs since February 2010 as part of the opening sentence in a paragraph touting good news about the economy (“The housing market is coming back. The stock market has rebounded.”).
But there was something about that phrase that sounded familiar.
Here’s the president speaking to the Democratic National Convention on Sept. 6 (nine months ago):
“After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years.”
And here’s the president at the State of the Union address on Feb. 12 (four months ago):
“After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three.”
It’s pretty rare to hear the same talking point regarding a job statistic, month after month. What’s going on here?
The Pinocchio Test
While the president has long preferred to point to the gain in jobs since early 2010 — the low point in employment during his presidency — the fact remains that manufacturing employment remains about 600,000 jobs smaller than when he took office. That stands in stark contrast to overall nonfarm employment — which is 2 million jobs larger.
Moreover, the growth in manufacturing jobs has basically stalled over the past year. The president’s continued use of this 500,000-job statistic, even as other job stats keep improving, suggests the news is not as good as advertised. Without some presidential acknowledgment that manufacturing job growth has slowed in the past year, it might be time to retire this talking point.
Two Pinocchios
It could be, but that is not what I said. You people just refuse to read what is right in front of you.
I see you still have trouble with what a deficit is (Hint:it has two components and your inability to come to terms with how a govt effects a recovery makes this whole exercise pointless) and you still did not understand my point, you decided instead to put words in my mouth and go off on your tangent.......but this IS what you do, so no surprise.....and again it is a reminder of the futility of conversing with you. You take the easy way out, you purposely avoid the point made, you instead create a straw man and then slay it with a tangent.
Your life is all about false premises. You see, if we went backwards to Bush era practices, we would probably have another "going off the cliff", ie big bubble pops.
Oh FFS, what am I "claiming exists in a vacuum"?
But you DID make them (PR/"shedding") equivalent when you said:
What frigging claim? Again, YOU ARE NOT RAISING THE BAR, YOU ARE POSTING LAZY CRAP.
You are conflating 2 different points. The first is that the President is correct in saying that since 2010 manufacturing jobs have increased by 500K.
How is restating a truth...wrong?
When did the workforce decline? FFS! another rabbit hole!
"Jobs" refer to new hires. GAWD!!!!!
Supply-side BS. The economy is not a "build it and they will come" fantasy.
If you think the attempts at reviving the economy was limited to monetary policy/efforts, you just have no business commenting here.
